Post University

JULY 16, 2025

According to data from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), nearly 90% of the 355,000 licensed nurse practitioners in the United States are trained in primary care, and 70% of active nurse practitioners work delivering primary care. By the mid-1990s, Medicare also approved reimbursement for NP-provided services.

Nurse Practitioner

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A greater role for technology, especially artificial intelligence, and more states introducing legislation to allow NPs to practice at the top of their license are among the trends NPs will see in 2025. “We’re going to see more states introduce legislation allowing NPS to practice at the top of our licenses,” he said.

Nurse Practitioner

Nursing Review

JUNE 9, 2025

The government contributed a substantial 37 per cent ($8 billion) mainly through Medicare. Currently, people earning over $97,000 (or families over $194,000 face an additional Medicare Levy Surcharge if they don’t hold private health insurance. Private health insurance covered about 45 per cent ($9.7 billion) in out-of-pocket costs.

Health Insurance

Nurse Practitioners in Business

MAY 29, 2025

Scope of Practice, Licensing, Malpractice Is the service within your scope of practice? If considering a cash-based service, determine if patients are willing and able to pay out of pocket before launching. Are other practices close by offering the same services? Would you need additional certification or training to offer the service?

Malpractice

Nursing Review

MARCH 17, 2025

The profession was also unable to access Medicare rebates or Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme subsidies for patient consultations or scripts. Their skills and competence werent widely understood or recognised. This meant their scope of practice was poorly defined, which may have been confusing for both patients and health professionals.

Military

Relias

JULY 15, 2025

While the law has been passed, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is still in the process of defining how the funds will be distributed and what will qualify for reimbursement or grant support. The BBB also sits against a backdrop of growing policy attention on ownership structures and clinical control.

Medicaid

Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When hospitals and health systems use automation augmented by artificial intelligence (AI) for data abstraction, they help nurses work at the top of their licenses, providing bedside care that no technology could ever replace. People enter nursing because they are driven to help others.

Travel Nursing

Nursing Review

JANUARY 27, 2025

If services funded by Medicare and other sources stay below that level for years, funding should automatically become available to bridge the gap. GP services per person per year, adjusted for age, would cost the federal government at least A$30 million a year in Medicare payments. Read the original article.

Medicare

Nursing Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

It has mostly involved adding more items to the Medicare schedule, with each professional practising separately. To the disappointment of most allied health professions, the review does not recommend more Medicare payments for them to practise independently. Any change has been incremental and disjointed. Read the original article.

Medicare

Penn Nursing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Joined Booze Allen supporting the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and Oncology Care. A recent reactivation of RN license and appointment as a Penn Nursing Renfield Fellow have brought her full circle back to clinical roots and nursing. “I Transitioned to Health Informatics, and then moved into Health IT consulting.

Clinical Nurse Specialist

Nursing Review

APRIL 28, 2025

Earlier this month, the federal government announced a $10 million commitment to make Medicare more inclusive for LGBTQIA+ Australians. It aims to improve their access to inclusive, culturally safe primary care through training and accreditation for GPs, nurses and other health-care providers. Read the original article.

Mental Health

Capitol Beat

JULY 31, 2025

Notably, this RFI from HHS is not the first health-related deregulatory RFI of this Administration—in May, ANA responded to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) RFI on deregulation. CMS continues to promote this RFI in its 2026 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Pay System and Physician Fee Schedule proposed rules.

Medicare

Health Leaders | Nursing

JUNE 26, 2025

Nursing homes have struggled to replace licensed nurses, who can find better-paying jobs at hospitals and doctors' offices, as well as nursing assistants, who can earn more working at big-box stores or fast-food joints. Medicare rates Goodwin House Alexandria as one of the best-staffed nursing homes in the country.

Long Term Care

Nursing Review

JULY 21, 2025

It used publicly available data collected on each birth in three states in Australia, as well as Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme ( PBS ) and Medicare Benefits Schedule ( MBS ) data linked to these cases to help examine cost. Read the original article.

Pharmaceutical

American Nurse

JULY 9, 2025

Medicare expects beneficiaries or caregivers to perform routine foot care (nail trimming and shaving, paring, cutting, and removal of calluses [keratoma and tyloma] and corns [heloma]), so it’s excluded from coverage. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website lists codes that indicate medical necessity. October 2028.

Medicare

Nurse Practitioners in Business

JULY 5, 2023

So this truly is for all of us with licenses. As an employee, you may find yourself part of one or many audits. That audit may be directed toward the practice or the individual clinicians. Audits can be internal and done proactively, or they can be external. But first, what is a medical audit to begin with?

Business

Health Leaders | Nursing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

With more than 100 million Americans lacking access to primary care, employing more nurse practitioners (NPs) and allowing them to practice at the top of their license is critical to making healthcare more accessible in rural areas, NP leaders say. of full-time NPs seeing Medicare patients and 82% seeing Medicaid patients.

Nurse Practitioner

Capitol Beat

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Much of Medicare is in statute, and as a result the Administration has limited authority to expand telehealth absent Congressional action. However, waivers that allowed advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to practice at the top of their license will expire on October 9 absent further Congressional action. 42 CFR §482.12(c)(1)–(2)

APRN

Daily Nurse

APRIL 24, 2023

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In December 2019, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) reported that 290,000 NPs were licensed to practice in the United States. percent of licensed NPs in the U.S. Many older Americans receive care from aging services facilities across the United States.

Malpractice

Daily Nurse

AUGUST 7, 2023

“For example, an analysis by McKinsey & Co found that telehealth accounted for less than 1% of Medicare services before the onset of the pandemic, but by July of 2021, telehealth services accounted for about 13-17% of claims submitted to Medicare. They would provide the level of care that each are currently licensed to provide.

APRN

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

APRIL 1, 2020

The emergency decision by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on March 17, 2020 (and retroactively in effect beginning March 6, 2020) to pay for telehealth visits outside of rural areas has eased physician concern.

Telemedicine

Nurse.com

JULY 18, 2022

In fact, by last year there were more NPs licensed for primary care than there were primary care physicians, who now make up only about 30% of all MDs. It is no surprise, then, that NPs are in particular demand in rural America and, over 80% of NPs accept Medicare and Medicaid patients. Rural areas of the U.S.

Nurse Practitioner

Empowered Nurses

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In it, 335,000 registered nurses and licensed practical/vocational nurses surveyed in 2022. For the first time ever, centers for Medicare and Medicaid services have proposed new staffing regulations for long term care facilities. That survey found that one in four nurses intended to leave the profession in the next four years.

Long Term Care

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Medicare, Medicaid, and many private insurers require the use of the National Provider Identifier (NPI) which is administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). NCSBN also automatically assigns every licensed nurse an NCSBN ID number in their Nursys database. Why should I obtain an NPI?

Medicare

Health Leaders | Nursing

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act would amend the Federal Employees Compensation Act to allow injured workers to receive treatment for work-related injuries from state-licensed NPs and PAs. The legislation was introduced in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives by Sens.

Nurse Practitioner

American Nurse

JUNE 13, 2024

Medicare, Medicaid, and many private insurers require the use of the National Provider Identifier (NPI) which is administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). NCSBN also automatically assigns every licensed nurse an NCSBN ID number in their Nursys database. Why should I obtain an NPI?

Medicare

CynaMed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Skilled care, on the other hand, refers to services that fall into skilled nursing care, or rehabilitation services, are provided by bedside licensed health professionals (like RNs, LPNs, CNAs) under the supervision of doctors and physical therapists. Medicare may pay up to 100 days of skilled care, depending on the circumstances.

Long Term Care

American Nurse

JUNE 3, 2024

The BHIT includes nurses, physicians, and licensed mental health therapists who provide and guide the delivery of compassionate patient-centered care for those with behavioral and substance use issues, as well as support and consultation for clinical staff caring for them. 3W3aHFM Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Communication

Health Leaders | Nursing

MARCH 5, 2023

Care models had not wavered much since hospitals became medicalized in the early 20 th century, and particularly since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) were created in 1965, says Jason Gilbert, PhD MBA RN NEA-BC , executive vice president and chief nurse executive, Indiana University Health.

Retirement

Healthcare Law Insights blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Unlike many states, Wyoming-licensed physicians can, but are not required to, report another physician to the Wyoming Board of Medicine for conduct violating the Wyoming Medical Practice Act. Generally, Wyoming law does not require physicians to report colleagues to the Wyoming Board of Medicine. Ass’n, AMA Principles of Med. Ethics: II: 9.4.2

Medicaid

Capitol Beat

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) entitled Make Your Voice Heard: Promoting Efficiency and Equity Within CMS Programs. We know that when APRNs are allowed to practice at the top of their license, more patients overcome barriers to receiving safe and cost-effective care.

APRN

Nurse.com

APRIL 14, 2022

The law authorized NPs to certify and recertify home health care services for Medicare patients, strengthened funding for personal protective equipment (PPE) for nurse practitioners (NPs) and other healthcare providers, and ensured vital resources to respond to the pandemic,” she said. NPs as Primary Care Providers.

Nurse Practitioner

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I was frustrated by things such as not being able to sign most medical orders of life-sustaining treatment forms or not being able to sign, believe it or not, a barber who needs a physical to be cleared to get their barber license in New York State. There are many outdated laws or policies, particularly Medicare and Medicaid.

Nurse Practitioner

Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

Become a Registered Nurse With a BSN There are many different types of nurses, from nurse assistants to licensed practical nurses to registered nurses with ADNs. To start, you need to investigate your state’s licensing requirements for medical practices. Finally, you definitely want to acquire malpractice insurance.

Nurse Practitioner

Nursing Review

AUGUST 28, 2023

With higher-income earners, the government uses sticks – buy private cover or pay the Medicare Levy Surcharge. In the 2020-21 financial year, Medicare combined with state and territory government expenditure provided almost $6.1 Governments encourage us to buy private hospital cover. Read the original article.

Health Insurance

American Nurse

JULY 5, 2023

During the pandemic, about 230,000 APRNs treated Medicare patients, and approximately 40% of Medicare beneficiaries received care from APRNs. Having a license to practice in Missouri is a step in the right direction to recognize APRNs’ level of education and competence in caring for Missourians,” Oerther said.

APRN

Capitol Beat

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The bill represents huge progress for APRNs to continue to practice at the top of their license. The ICAN Act would remove unnecessary and outdated barriers to providing care for APRNs across the country so they can better care for their patients who are enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid programs.

APRN